The Pentagon is considering sending additional antimissile batteries, another squadron of jet fighters and added surveillance capabilities to the Middle East to shore up the military’s regional presence in the wake of the attack last weekend on Saudi Arabia’s petroleum industry, U.S. military officials said. The Wall Street Journal reported …
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A US drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State hideout in Afghanistan has killed at least 30 and 40 injured civilians who were resting after harvesting pine nuts. The attack, on Wednesday night, was aimed at destroying a hideout used by ISIS militants, but it accidentally targeted farmers near …
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On 17 September 2019, the Israeli news outlet NZIV, citing a number of military sources, published the flight route of the Israeli stealth fighters, that struck eastern Syria. According t the flight route of the Israeli F-35s it turned out, the IAF F-35s, not only entered the Syrian airspace but …
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U.S. Air Force has deployed at least one Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call electronic warfare (EW) plane in one of its bases in the Middle East. On September 18, Manu Gómez, an observer of civilian and military aviation, spotted the advanced EW plane over the eastern Mediterranean. The plane flew over Israel …
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The Russian Armed Forces have allegedly given the Syrian military the green light to use their S-300 system against Israeli warplanes that enter their airspace, the Russian aviation publication Avia.Pro reported. “Against the background of how Israel was repeatedly seen striking at Syria despite the previously reached agreements between Russia and Israel, …
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As we have reported earlier a Belgian Air Force F-16BM Crashed In A Residential Area In France After An In-flight Engine Fire. F-16 fighter jet crashed damaged a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving a pilot suspended for hours from a high-voltage electricity line. Emergency workers rushed to try …
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A Belgian Air Force two-seater F-16BM Fighting Falcon has crashed at around 10.30LT today in western France in a residential area after an inflight engine fire. The aircraft was unarmed and on a navigation training flight. Both pilots managed to eject from the aircraft and would be unscathed even though one …
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A Spanish Air Force ENAER T-35B Pillan trainer plane crashed into the sea under unknown circumstances. Both the instructor and the trainee pilot died in the crash. Commander Daniel Melero Ordóñez was 50 years old and a native of Cádiz, and the third-year student Ensign Rosa María Almirón Otero, 20 …
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On Sept. 17, two Belgian Air Force F-16s deployed to Siauliai Air Base, Lithuania, in support of NATO BAP mission, were scrambled to intercept two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack bombers and two Russian Su-27 Flankers above the Baltic Sea. It was the first scramble for the Belgian Air Force since it …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to help Saudi Arabia protect its people and oil infrastructure by selling the kingdom Russian-made air defense systems. Putin’s remark, at a press conference with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, came after U.S. officials said that Iran is …
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